On Joy and Desire: An Interview with Sarah Ladipo Manyika
hen Sarah Ladipo Manyika reads lwaloud from her new novel—the exquisitely titled Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun—she becomes the characters…
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A Slave to the Essayistic Impulse: An Interview with Angela Morales
he job of the essayist, like any storyteller,” writes Angela Morales in the introduction to her debut essay collection The Girls in My Town,…
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LITERARY STORIES ABOUT ONLINE EXPERIENCES: AN INTERVIEW WITH LEIGH STEIN
I first learned about Leigh Stein after she published an essay in the New York Times about the importance of young memoirists. She writes:…
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Short Prose and Persistence: An Interview with Penny Guisinger
Penny Guisinger recently went on the United State’s easternmost book tour for her first memoir, Postcards from Here.
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I Am Evghenia, First on Mars: An Interview
Her name echoes Eve, the first woman of one enduring creation story. She herself—a farm kid from somewhere near the Russia-Kazakhstan border—is the first person on Mars, as followers of the Twitter account “Evghenia Is on Mars” have been told, 140 characters of patchy English at a time.
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Writing about Women at the Margins: An Interview with NoViolet Bulawayo
The Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo, a group of her friends and I are at Buka, a Nigerian restaurant in Brooklyn, and we are surrounded by fish heads…
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Women We Read This Week
Erica Wagner’s “Life and death at his fingertips: watching a brain surgeon at work” in The New Statesman This was published last month, but…
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Crafting Memoir and “Doing Grief”: An Interview with Melanie Bishop
This week’s guest writer, Melanie Bishop, was one of my first writing teachers at Prescott College, a small liberal arts and environmental school in…
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Women We Read This Year: 2013
It’s that time of year, the time of Bests and Mosts and pretty much any superlative you can think of that will fit in…
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Women We Read This Week
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah’s “If He Hollers Let Him Go” on The Believer How do you write a profile about someone you never get to…
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Women We Read This Week
Claire Messud interviewed by Alex Clark in The Guardian I’ve come late to Claire Messud: I picked up The Last Life on a whim…
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Women We Read This Week
“The Rumpus Interview With Rachel Kushner” on The Rumpus After reading The Flamethrowers, I developed a massive lady writer crush on Rachel Kushner, and…
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